v u Through Slf|*er. IM, w*>U I know TOOT words are PUT, I premised tin* last due* to Ton, Th /set 1 can't duT s Yet do not dorm t maidsu false. ' Nor thtoV ebe d wtUi anoi her waits Wliil* vou art st&ndiuc by. Think not I >oo* use tty card I've kl Hi at something hath mj temper crossed. Nor Judge me * CO*ieUs ; Fain would I in the giddy whirl With Von my partner madly twirl. And all my £rfet forgot i - Bnt ah ! to-night my joy* are o'er. No more 1 trwad.tlio polished floor (1 though i you never frowned ?> For (Vdigwr) eattu hi net atroug, And, Henry, having danced too long. * t tMy torn an' vat V ♦ : .iil ..it , , .-•tt tr ' t 'K i ;y /.a.ui , ... A Son? of hlllarttoj-. < Slum me a eight Dates for delight. An ould Irtah wheel aid a young Imh gul< it. 0! Noi , , Nothing you'll show AijuaU her situu' au takin' a twriH at it. - > • liOok at her there. Night ui her hair— The hlue ray of day from her eye Uughui out t .on us*! |((( Faix. an' a foot, For feet of cut, reepiu' to put an end to all doubt in ua. That there'e a eight lioie* for delight An ould Irish wheel aid a young Inah girl at it, ... 0! No! Nothing you'll show Annate her attun' an' taluu' a twirl at it. See ' Uie lamb'* wool . . Turns ooaree an' dull By them soft, beautiful, weeehy, white bauds of bar! Down goee her heel. Svuu' luua the wheel, Tarriu wid jleaeure to take the conunan.ht of her. Then show me a eight lis tee for delight Aa auM Irieh wlteel aid a young Irish girl at it O! No! Notiun' you'U shew Afjnahs her eitUn' and takui' a twirl at it Talk of Three Fates. Sated on MUS, Upinalu' and ala .rui' away till they're done for me. Too may want three For your massacre. Bnt one fate for me, bora, and only the one for me. • And Isn't that fate IVrured eotnplase. An' ould Irish w heel wtd s young Irish girl at it ? or No! Nothin' you'll show Aquaie her sittm' au' takin' a twirl at it HETTY'S DOUGHNUTS. The long rays sf the afternoon sun slipped in at Mrs. Baxter's open door, danced gaylv over the spotless floor of the ample kitchen, darted in and out for a moment or two among the highly polished tins which stood in orderly rows on the dresser, and then suddenly plunged into Hetty's heavy braids, and nestled there, as "if they* had at last found what they were seeking, and hat! no wish to wander more. They conld not well have found a fairer resting place than those same rich braids, red in the shadow and gold ia the sun. un less they had chosen the long dark lashes, or the roguish dimple, or the soft pink cheeks, or the rosy lips. But no 1 the lips would have 'constituted bnt an uneasy resting-place, for they were in tolerable constant motion. Not that anv one who bean! Hettv Morris speak wonld have wished her to be silent; still, silent she seldom was—at least in her waking hours. At the moment when the sunbeams first pointed her out to us, as she stood at the great table rolling out dough, her sleeves fastened up, and her round - white arms here and there dabbsd with flour scarcely whiter, she was softly talking to herself. " Dear me ! I shall never get these miserable doughnuts done by tan- time," she was saying, as she cut off a strip of doufch and" gave it an airy twist • and that horrid fat gets hotter and hotter every minute. The last two kettlefuls are utterly rained. * "If that is ' uttr rain,' " remarked a masculine voice, " I am willing to take it off your hands. Pass me the pan. Miss Hetty." Aad the vines trailing over the east window were gently moved aside, and a dark curly head, adorned with two or three ahsVings, proceeded to insert itself into the open window, as if a portrait had snddenly pushed its way into its frame. Hettv trefeed her head. " Xo, I thank you, Mr. Kennedv," said she, with an other twist of the light dough. " Uncle Baxter knows to s doughnut how many there should be in a batch ; and if there were one missing I should suffer for it." " Oh, noosense I** said her companion. ** He is not so bad as that I>ll the truth, Hetty, and say it is you who ; tj grudge me the per" satisfaction of a solitary cake. Never mind. There's a good tame coming toon, when they will be every-day affairs with me," " What do you mean T* asked Hetty, pausing with her fork in her hand. " What should I mean, exaept that I am thinking of getting married ?" re turned the yonng man in the window, brushing off a shaving as he spoke. " Ob— I hadn't heard," observed his companion, returning with supreme in difference to her rolling-pin. " Haven't you ? I am surprised at that," was the reply, "for it has been talked all over town for the last fort night " -1 "I wish yon wre not so fond of those silly jekes, Frank," said Hetty, de cidedly. "I will agree tp abandon the habit from this tims forth for. evermore," he replied, looking very' handsome and penitent; " that is, if you will give me a certain slight token that I am for given." Hetty drew rearer to the window. " What shall it be ?" she asked, with a deepening blush and a very encour aging smile. "If you love me, my desr, bestow Xn me that crusty donghnot which rns the top of yonder pile,* he re sponded, theatrically, striking an atti tude as he spoka - Hetty's heel* clicked expiessively as she walked to the pantry door, herhead high in air. *' Help yourself," she said, briefly. " Thanks 1" responded Frank, reach- i ing a long arm in at the window and over to the table. "It is more conve nient than I thought. I could easily! carry away the whole panful," No reply. " Hetty, are you vexed ?" A dead silence. " Come here, little girl, and give me a better token of forgiveness." " Help yourself," was the demure re sponse. With an agile spring Frank perched upon the window-sill, when from the upper rpgionp a voice, clear and sharp, \ made itself heard in the succinct In y done, Hetty?" "Yes, aunt. Do you want me?" asked the girl, darting to the door. "Come up," was the rejoinder; I and Miss Hetty, looking triumphantly back as she attained a secure position inthe doorway,- had 4he satisfaction, dear to her mischievous heart, of be i .holdi'pk a djsooraflted countenance dis-1 the window, afe Mr. Frank Kennedy dropped down on the outside. The vthes rustled for an instant, arid tfcen were still. Hetty closed the door, and the sunbeams and the huge pan of doughuuts had the big kitchen all to' themselves. Mrs. Baxter sat examining a chestful J of woolen cjothes, in the cool solitude of the noiih chamber. "Those pesky nioths; have got in here, after all," she remarked, as hr niece entered the room. "Look at that, now;" and she exposed to vfcfcv an ancient garment completely riddled EH KD. 1\ I' U'l'Z, Editor uiul 1 'i-oprietor. VOL. VI. with email holes. "You jnat ait down hv, lteutirtta, tuid eort out all the stocking* into that basket by them selves. You'll hare just about*time be fore you sot th supper-table." HA ttv sat down as directed, arid waa aooti deep in a uiuaty heap of stocking* aud fianuel*. "There's Will Lowrrv going by," said her aunt, pausing a moment iu her oc cupation And glaucing out of the opeu casenit lit, "I must ask hiui about Auut Kligy.— Good-evening, William," ahe calhwl, leaning over the aill, and ad dressing a good-looking, broad-shoul dered rouug follow who was passing the gate. " How's all the folks, par ticularly your aunt Klixv ?" "AU the folk* are well, except Aunt Eli&a, and she's better," replied the vonug man, pausing iu his walk and leauiug on the gate, as if quite willing to prolong the interview. "Aunt Mar tha is going te have the sewing society up there to-morrow." "They'll eat her out of house and home," rejoined the old ladv, rather grimly. "That retuiuds me, William, I promised to tend your auut some of my yeast cakes, aud if you don't mind a bundle, you may take 'eui along with you. They're on the kit ohm table. If you'll jnat step round te the back-door you'll find 'cm quite handy." " I'll just run down aud get them for him." proposed Hetty, anxious to es cape from the wool chest, aud noi at all averse to a little dirtahon with Will Lowry. '! You'll just stick to the stockings. Miss Mom*, "answered her aunt, prompt ly. "Let him wait on himself.' Presently the-tast pair of stocking* was laid away, and then her aunt said, "uow get the tea ; and be quick about it, too, Henrietta, for I see father's waguu driving rouud to the barn now." Hetty flew down to the kitchen, hur riedly put the tea to draw, and neatlv set out on the white cloth snowy bread, golden butter, and crimson jelly, all made by her awn deft fingers. Then she ranged before her uncle'a place a huge platter of cold boiled beef, a dish of cold potatoes, and another of pork and greens. Theu, standing at one side, she glanced critically over the generous board to see if ail was com plete. Something about the arrange ment struck her as faulty ; but at first she could not satisfy herself as to what it was. At last a light broke in -upon her mind. " Hew near • I came to forgetting the dough nuts ! How uncle would have fretted, to be sure! lam glad 1 thought before he came in." So saying, she took a plate and went into the pantry. Not a doughnut was to lie seen. She examined tle cupboard under the milk shelf. There was the bread box, a jar of cookies, and two lusty loaves of gingerbread—but no doughnut*. She brought a wooden chair from the kitchen, aud stoed there on to search the topmost shelf. There sho beheld only pots of jaru and pre serves, together with some disused tjsa, all very much covered with dust—but ne doughnuts. Then she pulled out the big pie board from behind the flour barrel (the pie board made by Frank at the age of ten years—his earliest essay in the carpentering line—and which warped past all using within the first month of its existence). No doughnuts —nothing but two or three cobwebs, against which she promptly registered a vow. As she was replacing the board a thought darted into her mind which caused smiles to fade quickly away, and a txowu of annoyance as quickly succeed them. "Frank! That is the reason he went home so early from kis work, is it? How silly of him to ulav mo such a (rick 1 It he only knew how cross Uncle Baxter can bfc when he is vexed ! What ahallldo?" And poor Hetty began turning over in her mind sll sorts of ex cuses for the noti appearance of her un cle's favorite delicacy, none of which would do in the least, and in the midst of which sho heard his rough voice in the kitchen. " Supper ready ? " "All ready," she answered, faintly, from the depths of the pantrv; and hastily cutting several thick slices of gingerbread, she harried out and took her seat at the table. " What time did Frank go?" inquired her uncle of nobody in particular, at the same time heaping his plate with meat aud vegetables. Hetty said nothing and her aunt re plied : " Somewhere between five and six ; I don't know exactly." " Did he get through with that door before he went ? " demanded the gruff voice ngain. "He did." repliejl Aunt Baxter, ooncisely. He.iir breathed more freely. " What that fellow does with his time is more than I know," gro'wleil Uncle Baxter. " It's lucky for him he's work ing by the job, or he'd hear s piece of my mind." Farmer Baxter's " women kind," as he was wont courteously to term the ladies of his family, understood his ways, and usually passed over his ebul litions of temper in silence, knowing that he would doubtless eat himself into better humor in due course. " I Ixdieve he spends half his time gossiping with the women," ho continu ed, rightly surmising that the subject was distasteful to his wife and niece, aud therefore doggedly pursuing it. " Has he been in here this afternoon, Henrietta ? " - " No, sir," replied Hetty, boldly, though a recollection of Frank's part ing attitude came over her guilty as she spoke. " Well, just sec that he don't then ; and yon tend to your work," was the surly rejoinder; and the old mm sub sided into a discussion of his dish of greens. For a few moments silence reigned about the table. Aunt Baxter, with the policy induced by long experience, remaining Hetty l>ecuse her angry tears choked her utterance. Presently a subdued conversation com menced and was for some time carried on in an undertone between anut and niece. Suddenly came the awfol ques tion, which had all the time been hang ing like a doom over poor Hetty's head. " Where's the donghnnts ?" "They were just done andquite Lot," replied Hetty, flushing crimson. "The gingerbread is fresh, and I thought you would just as lief lisve it Uvniglit." " You know better;,* amiably, return ed Uncle Baxter. " Just you step quick and get Borne." Hetty mechanically rose to obey, when her aufit quietly observed: " It seems a pity to let the ginger bread dry; bnt I presume Aunt Saman thy will be glad of it." " Aunt Human thy won't get it then, that's all," returned her lord and mas ter, quite uuconscious that this was precisely the response she wished and expected. "Sit down, Henrietta, and another time don't cut gingerbread when there's fresh doughnuts in the house." So that danger was over ; but in pro portion as her fear of her uncle's dis pleasure passed away her indignation against Frank Kennedy increased. Bhe could not readily forgive him the soold ing she had received or the more for midable one she had escaped. "I think I'll ruii up to grandma's," said Aunt Baxter,the nextday, as they TSHHfiw-dinner-tabTe, yon-can clear away the things alone." THE CENTRE REPORTER. " Oh I I ran do that easily enough," replied Hetty, with alacrity, for the poor child had boon planning all the morning how alie could get au oppor tunity to replace that dreadful lnisaiug dish. " Very well," said her auut: " and if you waut something to do, you might sort the rest of those flannel*." " 1 want to gather uiy dress skirt," said Hetty, faintly, blushing us she did ao for the deception. " Well, 1 don't care, ao yon're not idle and Auut Baxter walked heavily and reapoctably out of the gate adorned with her tiuuday bonnet aud her best mantilla. No soouer did the gate click liehind her than Hetty fell to work with the greatest energy. Kggs were beaten, spice measured, sugar aud shortening weighed, and worked into the dough which had been surreptitiously rising Iwlnnd the pantry dortr siuco moruiug. The fat was tested, and the strips of the soft yielding mass speedily reap peared in crisp, browu twists piled up ill a large yellow dish, which dish was spitefully placed out of reach from the open window. The young lady did not *mg over her work to-day, but frowned blackly instead, as she dew from stove to table. The frown dee|eued jiervep tilily when, just as she was contempla ting the last of the golden brown cakes, a well-known voice was heard from the window, exclaimiug : " Heaven defend us ! What a capa city Uncle Baxter must have for dough nuts, if he has eaten all you made yesterday, aud now demands more !" This was too much. Hetty felt the blood leaping through her veins. " Mr. Kennedy !" she said, icily, "it ia possible to carry a joke too far, 1 am so busv this afternoon that I can not stop to War you ' talk nousense ; '" with which cuttiug quotation she turn ed with much dignity to leave the room, and presently found * herself wildly struggling with the dt>or-latch, which, with the usual pervevwity of inanimate things, chose this inauspicious moment for sticking fast. " Won't yon tell me what I have done ?" pleaded the delinquet, seizing his opportunity. "1 don't can* to discus* the point," replied Hetty, still fumbling with the obdurate doorlatcli. " How unfair you arc'." he broke out, impatiently. " You accuse me of some mysterious offense, and then utterly re fuse to allow me to defend myself. ' "I dou't accuse you of anything," said Hetty, shaking the door furiously. " I know that yon consider joking at every time and on every subject JHT feotlv allowable, but when I had told you fairly what uncle can be when he i* vexed, I did think it very cruel and in considerate that you should set him on me just for a silly trick." " I give von my word, Hetty, that I hiul no idea of your uncle s really grudging nie those cakes, if that is what you mean, or even knowing anything about it." Hetty elevated her eye brows. "Of course I know- he is stingy, and all that, but I had no idea you were in earnest when yoti said he would visit it ou your head. My taking them at all was auly a bit of fun, anyway." " And a very stupid bit of fuu," inter polated Hetty. But iut here the door yielded to a particularly vigorous twitch, and Hetty rushed upstairs. The tea-things were hurriedly washed up and pot away that evening, and Mrs. Baxter aet forth sedately through the village street, for it was coufen-uce meetmg night Who does not know that meeting well, with its swinging kerosene lamp, whose Light seems al ways in rout eyes, whichever way they turn, until you close them for relief; the solemn countenance of the good deacon who " leada ;" the donhtful aud wailing hymns ; the swfnl pauses; the sense of personal gratitude to some long-winded, pnwiy brother who rises aud " fills up the time " after a deathly hush of nnnsual duration; and the bleeeod period which closes the service and removes the restraint that for two hours has bound the senses of all pres ent? The closing prayer is offered, and the words spokcu which dismiss the wor shipers, who stream out into the nar row aisles, the older ones gravely ex changing bits of local gossip, the younger, to whom this is the moment of culminating interest, wishing, fear ing, and hoping. The girls cast blush ing glances toward the phalanx of tall youths on either side of the door, aud the youths, having already made a se lection, only await opportunity Happy those whom no disspjointment awaits ; for, alas ! there must be some "previous engagements." Then comes the deli cious saunter homeward in the soft summer evening, the elders having Con siderately gone on before; the linger ing at the gate while the trees softly whisper overhead, and the good-night reluctantly mnrmtued beneath the stars. Alas that youth comes but once, and will not return after disappointments have taught Us to value aright its sweet dream-life 1 iietty walked demurely out of meet ing that night by her aunt's side, oon smons, though they had not exchanged a glance, that Frank Kennedy was await ing her. A little lonely sense of separa tion from him came over Iter, but it did not soften her resentment. It had le --1 come a regular thing for Frauk to walk home with her after meeting; she was' vexed with herself when she thought how regular it was. As this thought passed through her mind, she becamo aware, though her eyes were cast down, that Frank was Approaching her on one side while Will Dowry was offering her his arm on the other. Fixing a cold look UDOU the former—a look whinlicut him to the heart—she turned with 0110 of her brightest smiles to the latter, and, with a "Thank yon, Mr. Lowrv," she walked away with him, leaving Frank gazing after her with a look of pain and perplexity mingled. As for Hetty, though she talked and laughed in her gayest tones, and leaned on Will's arm and glanced up in Ids face in her usual coquettish maimer, her heart was heavy within her, nor did she feel hap pier, though she became much gayer, when, a few minutes later. Frank passed her with Belma Burton clinging to his arm confidingly. "Is that an engaged couple, Miss Morria ?" asked her companion, as Sel ma's lisping tones died away in the dis tance. " I am sure I don't know," answered Hetty, with a light lnngh; and then the conversation drifted into the usual talk of two young persons takingthe longest way home under the elms on a balmy summer evening. They stood for some time by tbe gate, trying to distinguish various constellations in the sparkling heavens—so long, in fact, that Frank Kennedy, returning no doubt from sim ilar astronomical researches with Bel ma, heard Hetty's clear laugh, aud paused for a moment, hulf intending to join her. Bat hiabctter judgment pre vailed; he walked away and disappeared in the darkness. Then Will aud Hetty exchanged a good-night over the low gate—several good-nights, jp fact—and they parted. Every thing had gone exactly as Miss Morris wished. Bhe had crushed Frank to the earth witu her scorn, aud she had shown him that she was by no means dependent on bis attentions. Certainly no one could ask for a more devqtcl suitor than Will Dowry. tiling he hod said during the evening had CENTRE HALL, CENTRE CO.. PA., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 1873. ! shown her plainly that she had but to stretch out her hand and take him; aud bow manly and handsome he wss ! "1 will take hiin, too. if he utTttrs huuself," •aid iletfy to hersulf as she put out her light. Then she very consistently eritwl ' herself to sleep. The next day passed like a dream to her. She performed her usual duties as if she were somebody else, l-'rauk was still at work in the barn, having not quite finished his job; but he did 1 not once look toward the house, as fsr as HetTy could see, much less come to ward it; aud she noticed that ha had left ( return your pan. The cakes were splendid. Did you make "em, or did Hetty ? For 1 want the receipt." " ( always make yeast cakes myself," replied Aunt Buxter,looking liewdden-d. "But where did the pan come frwm 7" " Will brought the doughnuts home in it. By-tho-by, you promised me some of thorn yeast cake*." Auut Baxter still looked dazed, but Hetty, for the first time seeing n light dawn through th* clouds which had for some day* overshadowed licr, burst into a peal of rather loud ami hysterical ltnghur, which brought Uncle Baxter out of dream-kuid into the front-mom to ascertain the cause of *uch a start ling sound. "Was it yen who took the donghnnta?' cried Hetty, as soon as she could speak "And you thought they were y.-ast cakes ? And a reuewed peal of laugh ter attested the poor child's revu'soon of feeling. "Mrs. Baxter said they were in plain sight on the kitchen table," responded Will, in rather an injured tone ; " and aa they were the only oaken there, I nat urallv supposed them to be yeast cakes." "No wonder you went home across lota," cried Hetty, goiug off into another peal of laaghUr, m which everybody joined. "Well, I thought myself it was kind o' qu.-er," aaid Miss Lowrj at last, wip ing the tears from her eyes; "but 1 a'poaed of course yon sent 'em for the society ; so we ate 'em up." That night before Hetty slept she had written a brief note to Frank Kenne.lv. She bad a bitter struggle with her pride before she could make up her mind to take the first step, but the lesson of the last few days had not been altogether lost: "DIUH FBAJOL—I have mads s horri ble blunder, and I am ashamed of my self. If yon fuel that you can forgive my abominable treatment of you, come to see me, and I will explain. H. M." Sh waa sitting under a tree in the orchard idly rolling one or two half-ripc apples about on the gross. She had watched and waited *ll day for Frank ; and now, ss evening was drawing on and he hail not crime, she was lmgin niug to think he was ton deeply offend ed to soek her again. A shallow passed betweeu her and the setting sua, and he stood before her. "Well?" he demanded, gravely re garding her. He loved Hetty Morris better than hit own life, but he felt that she had injured him solely through caprice, and he felt that he could not lower his dignity oven to regain her previous fnvor. "I want to ask yonr forgiveness, Frank," said Hetty, speaking very fast lest her resolution should fail. ' "fc have treated you very badly, hut it was all a ridiculous misunderstanding." "Of course you were forgiven before you nsked," he said, still gravely, and without offering to ait down. The nar rator discredits this magnanimous state ment, but the young roan said it, never theless. "And now, ho resumed; " I suppose I may ask the promised ex planation. " "It ia too preposterous," cried Hetty, breaking into irrepressible luuglib r. "The truth ia, I lost my doughnuta.and I thought you had taken them just for a joke." "But I did take aome, you know," lie said, looking puzzled. "I know yon took two," nuswercd Hetty, banting out again ; "but I lost at least n bushel." Frank Kennedy hod come to lhis in terview with a determination to bo dig nified, and, if necessary, atom ; but as tho sun Hank beneutli the horizon a Ixv latoil swallow hurrying homo to liis family might liavo hoard him remark, "Whatever clao wo havo at tho wed ding-supper, Iki auro and havo a butch of doughnut*." "You may depend on roe for that," replied Miss Hetty, smartly, "for 1 shall rely on that argument to bring Uncle Baxter round." Cheese It, Not the least ingenions suggestion offered to the Commissioners of the Centennial Exposition comes from New Hampshire. A citizen of that State communicates the following colossal plan : " Dear Sirs : I speak of cheese —cheese in the grandest and inoat sublime souse of tho term, cheese such us the world has nevor slen—cheese 1 hundreds of thousands of pounds of it. It shall be an immense plain, the con solidated efforts of every cheese manu facturer in the United States, and will be capable, when laid down upon its aide, of accommodating many hundreds of people. Such a cheese as the one I icak of would certainly create aston u hmont, and would gain for our maim fa- 'nrers the admiration of the world. 1 ib-sire space for such a cheese. Can I have it? Answer." A man thrift his arm info a lion's cage, lit Mansfield, Ohio, recently, and nearly lost it in consequence. Wbj Marriage* Decrease. VVlitl • Writer lUt la Hay About It. Tho fulling off in matrisges ia found in the centre* of population, where tin* needs of lift* press hard. Tim old-fash ioned disinterestedness litta of lsto v ears been lostuggrouud in these places. Thirty or forty yearn ago it was plain auilitig ; a gibbons hat ami the operu were unknown j all wotked for a living, aad none were rich ua compared with those of to-duVi It haa become evident that 111 cities Hymen u losing hia power; yet the goddess who ratoa out of the seu foam coutiuuea to exercise her wonted oliariua over men, though they refuse to follow Hymen. There is a hide-and-seek process on tlie part of man to avoid sup|>ortiug the woman, which would be to the last degree un generous if it were not in some meas ure compulsory. Father* endeavor to dis|tose of daughters to those who stand upon comlitieus, and each tries to shirk the ei|iense of keeping them. Thus regarded, the woman become* a |>oaaiblc incumbrance to the marrying man, and almost a parasite in her own family. A gr-at number of those who live in luxury iu the metropolis make both euds meet with difficulty. The head of the family is stretched on a fi nancial wheel, which never ceases to turn every day iu the year. He is pressed for what he consider* the nec essaries of life, and spends twenty thotisaud dollars a year. The capital of this man who spends twenty thous and dollars a year, at legal iutereat, would not, pcrtia|>a, yield Sum a third of what he expends ; thus he ia obliged to work hard f r hht living, and without relaxation. He ia not iu a (xiaition to help auy one hut himself, however wil ling he may be to do to. The young man making bis way through an oceau of difficulties, aud earning heavy bal last iu the shanc of claim am! social diasipat ton, may like the daughter of the poor, rich father ; but he haa not the audacity, even if she were willing to maka the sacrifice, to take her out of a handsome neat into an inferior one. In resisting the matrimonial temptation he has something to say for himself. His knowledge of life tells liim that there are scarcely any hours of happiness which are compensation for the rasping, wearing, daily want of means to pro vide for every-day necessaries and com fort*. and that it is not long before do mestic peace gives way under litis ter rible pressure. It is human, too, for the woman in uugtiarded momenta to mak< comparisons between her married and single life, ou which n-giels and re proaches are implied if not spoken. When matters reach this point, it ia the coup dr omrc, and domestic felicity ia at an end. An adviser may say to this young man, if he wants to marry the poor, rich girl, "tki West;" hut this is coun sel he can uot follow. His lot ia cast here, and through industry be has rea sonable expectation* of ultimately ac quiring a modest competency. It would lie foolish fur him to give up the bird in hand for the two out West in the buh, to say nothing of his liking*, wbieh, ten to one favor his present sur roundings. Here the field of labor is plainly indicated and he is already in the harm-**. His future leing here, he must submit to the condition* of life around him and accept civilization as he finds it. Thus reasoning, be turns awsyfrum the poor, rich man's sumptu ous dwelling with a sigh; he may not p'.tick the Coveted flower. And if the expected bridegroom in purple and fine hueu. frui Lydiau "bores fail to come, •he daughter u coudemued to a life of celibacy. If the fntln'r has several such who wail in vain, his hou*e, ac cording to the Dutch proverb, becomes like s cellar full of sour beer. There arc three issues out of the dif ficulties which involve marriCgc in the cities—s simpler mode of life; the in dejieiKlenc- which the woman may so quire in self-supjwirt ; and the dowry, which concerns rather the parents than the woman herself. A Story of Bean Richmond. I Van Richmond, the politician, nuS WIT magnate and stock operator, bad a son whow habits and character tern not entirely in accord with liia father's wishes. He would not bold a jM-n l>e bind bia ear, nor perch himself upon a stool ia tbe office, nor did bo exhibit anr of the qualifications for a auiveaa ftif bull or bear njon tin* stock market. The father hat eon fide nee in bia aon, and so strong beoaroo hia dianatiafae tiou that be eventually ostracised him. He WUH allowed to labor and alii ft for hia own support. lie became a eon• dnetor on hi* father'a railway, the New York Central. Mr. Richmond told him that the leant infraction of the rnlea of tbe company would iuanre hia immedi ate removal, and especially vraa be warnel against allowiug any person, whether a friend or not, to ride without allowing a poaa or a ticket, or paying the neeeaaary fare. He bad been em ployM in thi* capacity for aome time, and there hail liecn no complaints, when one day I Vau Richmond himself liecame a passenger himself on hia aou'a train. The conductor came to the old railway magnate, when the following dialogue occurred : "Ticket, Bir ?" " Ticket! Get out ! lam preaident of this road. I don't buy tickets." "That makes no difference. It is against orders for me to allow anybody to ride unless he pßya his fare, presents a ticket, or shows a pass. Coma, linrry up I" " Well, air, yon know who I am, and know that I am entitled to ride on tliia road free. I could make out a pass, but I haven't any blanks. You go on ; it's all right." " See here, old gentleman, it makes no difference who you are ; give me a ticket, show a pass, pay your fare, or get off the train." " Humph ! young man, you are get ting mighty arbitrary. If you dou't gu about your business I'll have yon dis charged." Tho young conductor made no rrplv, but gave a vigorous pull upon the befl rope. As the train chocked it* speed, and the father saw that he was about to lie treated like any other passenger, and was really liable to be act down alongside the trnck, midway lietween the stations, ho pulled out hia wallet and paid hia fare. This little episode gave him a new insight into his son's character, and lie forthwith commenced casting about for somo business occu pation for him. A Pat Uejolnder. At Oxford, some twenty years ago, a tutor of one of the colleges limped in his walk. Stopping one day last sum mer at a railway station, ho was accost ed by a well-Kiiown politician, who reooguized him, asd asked him if he was not the chaplain of —— College at such a time, naming tho year. The doctor replied that lie was. "I was there," said the interrogator, ami knew £ou by your limp." "Well," ,said the doctor, "it seems my limping made a deeper impression than my preaching." "All, doctor," was the reply, with ready wit, "it is the highest compli ment wo can pay a minister to say tbut be is known by his walk ratber than by bis conversation." Accepting a Nomination. We uever accepted a nomination to the Legislature but once. A political friend of ours named Felteis said the community demanded that we should run, and we consented. Fetters man aged the whole thing. Upon the even ing of the day ou which the convention adjourned, Fetters cams around to tell us that an enthusiastic constituency k was about to aercuade, aud in a few moments a brass baud arrived, accom panied by fifty or sixty politicians. The music lasted for au hour. Then Fetters said we must ask the liand and the ouiupsny in to have some re fresh men ts ; ami we did. Fetters had pro vided a wagon load of things, including the must sxpeiiaive kinds of wines by the gross. We could not snfflcisutly admire the large-hearted lilteraiity of Fettera. The company sat down to the banquet until four o'clock in the morning, the poli ticians making speeches and the baud every now and then playing in the dining-nsou, and waking the baby and the neighbors, and rattling the very shingles on the roof loose with its yociferouaneaa. At half-past four the company was in such a riotous condition that we weut out to hunt for a police man. When we returned the leader of the tuuid was sitting upon the stairs with the handle of au uu#irella in his month, vainly endeavoriug to play " Hail to the Chief " with hi* fingers fumbling among tko ribs. ♦ Fetter* waa in the corner supporting hmox-lf by the wall, while hi* endeavor ed to discuss the tariff question with our bust of Duivl Webster, and to cor rect Daniel's views of the localwiptton law. The man who played the cymbal* waa crying on the mat at the parlor dour because, aa be informed iu, hi* wife's maiden name waa Mri'arthy, while the leader of the deb-gallHu in the convention waa lying in the piano, the top of which waa rained, beating time with hi* heel* on the aoundiug board and string*, and whooping to " the lniya " tliat Uiere ww " only one more county to hear from !" Wo let the lid down with a slain, and that act tied htm ; and the policeman came just a moment too late to prevent a fight between the baaa drummer and the trombone man, daring wbieh the bald bead of the drummer waa bolted through our only pier glass, and waa then dragged out to bleed over the carpet The company left finally at aix o'clock. We Ix-giu to have duubta ntxjut the adviaability of running for the logislatare.saul these were increased, when Fetter* called around at noon with a bill of twelve hundred dollar* for expense# of the baud and for re freshment*. That act lied it We had thought the n-renaJe a compliment, and the *up}*cr'a little treat from Fetter*. We did uot run for ligulature then, and it I* probable we never shall ; cerUinly not while serenading by braaa band* uiuat be endured by candidate* for the office. lb-building the Column Vendeme. The London Huildrr givea the first definite information as to tlie progress and difficulties of the work of recon strurUng the column Yendome at Paris. It appears that the masonry work is •uly jnst Iwgun. Tliere ore more diffi culties in the wsy of this part of the undertaking than most unimtistrwl out sider* imagine. It is imagined that the foundation and pedestal base can be built like an ordinary wall. That is impossible. From motives of economy it is iu tended to utilise the stonework of the old column—at least all those portions of it which have not been ex cessively attenuated or defarmed by the demolition. Two-thmla of the ma terials can be so used ; the remainder of the work will have to be executed aa at the first erection of the column. But even among the two-thirds judged ser viceable there are only two steps abso lute!? intact The others require to be repaired, and will be replaced or re minted by means of cement in the Place Vcndome itself. But this repara tion is not the most difficult operatic u. Tlie interior of the column is formed by hugs square blocks of atone, pierced at intervals with large holes, into which are soldered cramp-irons that hook the outer bronze plates by a species of horseshoe eyelet attached to the inmost surface of the plates iu the foundry. The problem to be solved now is oqe fact that requires the nicest precision. The completed column will be sur mounted uot by the little hare-legged Cicanr, placed tliere in 19M-66, but the old staute. relegated to Courbevoie, of the Emperor in gray redingote and jack IKMIU, with the arm crossed iu the legendary attitude. The statue ia con siderably injured, but not irreparably. The new colnmn is not likely to be ootn- ! plcted before the end of the'yoa*. * High Farming. A noted farmer of New England, after visiting England and examining with tbe eritical eye of a practical and experienced agriculturist the system produced there, he says : " 1 am thoroughly "confirmed in my old faith that the only good farmer of our future is to be the ' high farmer.' Thera is a widely prevailing antipathy among the oomroon farmers of our State against not only the practice of high farming, but against the use of the phrase by agricultural writers. This ia all wrong, aud should at once be cor rected. Through aome misconception of the meaning ->f the phrase, and also of its application, they have come to believe it aynonvmoua with theoretical • book farming,' * new-fangled notions,' boasted strides of progress, followed hv disappointments and final failure. TW ia all an crrar. High farming simply means thorough cultivation, lilieral manuring, bountiful crops, good stock, good feed, and paying profits therefrom. It is not strange that mis conceptions have arisen in the minds of doubting farmers who have been eye witnesses to some of the spread-eagle experiments of enthusiastic farmers, Iwtter supplied with money obtaimd in a business they know how to manage than with practical experience on the farm. Bountiful crops and paying profits of oournc aro aliat all farmers who are dependent upon the farm for an income are striving to obtain ; and every year as it passes is reconfirming the op'iniou thst the profits are small, and will grow 'benatifully less ' where high farming ia not practiced. Cards Exchanged. The Montgomery (Ala.) Avrrtiter savs: A young la ly of this city who bail just returned from school, sent her card to her uncle, onr old friend Colonel O——• M—- —, with the letters R. 8. V. I*. inscribed in oneoorner. The Colonel, who didu't understand "R. S. V. P.," and who didn't oore a darn if he didn't, sent hit card in reply—inscribing the letters D. S. C. C. in the corresponding corner. These were new initials to the young lady, and when she met the Col onel, asked what he meant by such out landish initials? "What do you mean by yours?" que ried the Colonel in respouso. "Oh! I meant that you mast answer if you couldn't come. Now what did you moan?" "Me ! Why, I meant—that is the letters meant—'Darned sorry couldn't opuie.Wasn't that correct?" The youug lady was fairly cornered and gracefully "acknowledged the oorn." Term*: 02.00 a Year, in Advance. About A Wedding Fee. A matrimonial engagement has for aoute tune existed between a young gen tleman from a Western city and a young lady of considerable personal beauty, the daughter of a widowed mother. It was arranged between the parties interested that the engagement should terminate in an envelope, directed it to " Mr. , care of Mrs. " (was t lie re tbe least bit of sarcasm in tbe " car* of Mrs. f") and acnt it by a clerical friend, who waa visiting with him, to the boarding place, with in structions to deliver it personally. The messenger hod no sooner deported than there came to the door a colored waiter, 1 tearing a note, with tbe verbal roea *" Wants an an sab. sah; right off." The rector opened the envelope and found s missive from the young man, as follows: • iior, , please send that $25 im mediately." The rector sat down at his desk and wrote:- "Sin—lf yon had waited a few mo ments you would have been spared the trouble of seudiug for your mohey. It lias already been retiarned. Ho directed the note to *' Mr. , care of Mrs. —, Jd the servant took it in charge. The parties were married the next day (Weducsday) by another clergy man. And there are those who would give a dollar to lutow how much the clergyman who did the business got for his fye. Educational. Tlie report ef the West Point Board of Visitors directs attention to a fact which ought not be lost sight of. It is that out of 134 appointees for the posi tion of cadet examined during the year, forty-nine, or rather more than one third, were rejected on the litsrary ex amination. The Board attributes this rather surprising result to want of thoroughness in the primary education of the United States, and very properly nrges it upon the attention of the eohool boards, sujierintendents, and teachers. The preliminary examination of candi dates for admission to the Military Academy is of the most elementary kind, and it shows the existence of very serious defect* in the educational system, on which the country spends so much, that thirty-five per cent, of the young men selected for cadets should be so glaringly deficient in the simple rudiments of knowledge. NO. 38. Tbe Ha!lM at PriffM. t l r Friday U tbe Tnrkiah Babbstb, says > out win) waa witb Own. HhermaS'a party • in Lh Old World some year* pgo, anil , upon that day tit* HulUn go** to *uae > one of hi* numerou* mo*quea U aay hi* i prayer*. Thia i* a reremoay Attended r , with much pomp. The m<>*q4e *-I*b(- . ; <*< l during OM of the Friday* of (Jan. Hhrrtnaii * vudl waa po**d visiting, a email house, 11 beautifully furnished, from which he I j uaualiy wiUkmmmml msuumvrcf of the ■ troop* on the parade-ground near by. • When the party reached the kio*k they > found drawn up in two lines, feeing in ward, about 2,000 tufaiitrr and the • i officer# of the imperial household, all in ' full uniform, awaiting the finlua"* ar | riral, who waa to come froth hi* palace in one of hia eeiquea. The tej* of tha • • moaqua waa oovetwd with earjiet, aa ■ waa alao tha landing by tha wMor. At. noon a gun gave the aignal of, the Hul i tan'* departure from (be palace, and a* > I the procession Approached the ship* of ■ war in tha harbor they fired aaliite*, eo i that the noiae of the artillery became r deafening, and echoed and re-echoed • along thu hilla of the horua First r appeared around the turn a caique rowed by about twenty oaiu,<-a, in , which tat an official, who jjmp<-d quick - , ly from the caique on the landing, and i j the l>oat then paused on. 11. Thia waa followed by another in like ! order, and then came the Sultan, who aat under a handsomely embroidered i velvet canopy surmounted by the cres cent Hia caique wae rowed by about , thirty oanunen, who wwe dtf-***d in > white clothing, made out of a vwypret |ty material aeen at Constantinople. Their arm* were here from the elbow*, i aa were their Vega from the knee*. In II rowing they roe# from thek aeate in reaching to the stroke, took one atej. : forward, and at the moment of pulling i > bowed very low, settling in to (hetr neata aa the atroke became exhausted. The caiques were white, with gilt ornamcn -1 talion. A* soon aa the Bulta'* caique appeared the troop* presented arm*, and remained in that positicai. A* he landed the officer* of the botirefcold all .looped, placing the right hand to the ground, then on their hip*, then on the top of titrir head*—thua indicating that : they picked up the dirt. The Haitian ' waa* in uniform, and on hia Igeaat wore hi* order*. As be paaaed by the troopf , i they cheered, and while holding the muaket* at a present in the left hand/ saluted with the right Aa the Sultan came near tha kiosk be looked up at the ' windows where were the General and party, and after he had entered the I moaqae, sent his Lord Chauoellof to inquire if they were comfortable. Paaa- ! ittg into the aoaqne, the trxegs and the attendants swaitod him outside. Some of the attendants worn green gold-em- 1 brotdered lm-nes, other* purple. ' 'i ■■ ■ ■ <1 imi 11 i * u* in I * Five Bar* Without Food. The aehooner William A. P>ur, of ! Cape Ann, which arrived from (lie; Grand B*akn brought in two of the crew of schooner Lewis, of Marblehead j j Wiliiam Ward and Lawrence Mul-1 cshy—who left their vessel on the fid of < ' Jnly to visit their trawl, and a thick j fog setting in they were nnabla to regain her. The schooner subsequently j-i turned to port, and the men turn given, np aa kL The men state that for five day* the fog waa eo dan** it wa* im- J possible to see but a very shift distance j around them. They made every effort , ' to regain the vessel, bnt without sue- j ores. They frequently heard the whis- j tic* f steamer*, bnt never asw one ; and their sufferings for the want of food and drink wars must < icrnting. On ' , the fifth day tbav were *1KIII to giro up in despair when the fog lifted, and * to their joy they described a vessel in the distance. "This gsve (hem new • courage, and determining to make one , mors efiVwt for their Uvea, they rowed ' for the echooncr and soon succeeded in t making thcmarlvaa aeesu Tim sehooner j proved to be the William A. and a j float waa aooti sent to their assistance. They were taken on board in a very ex- > hausted condition, but with careful j nursing and kind attention from the ' captain and crew, thay were Soon mi tbe mending hand, although they atill j *how the effect* of the terrible ordeel through whieh they passed. When they arrived horn# at Marblehead they were welcomed aa those only can be ! who bad been given up aa dead. . j w York Hoot and Shoe Market. Trad* is fairly active in nil depart- , , menta. and some of too leading houses > are doiug a driving business. Bnrers J are here in goo.! force from tha South ' and West, and realise the fact that tlie j ; vnpplv of goods ia not *o largo but that ( there' may he soma a.(vantage now in i hurrying up their purehnsee. , Evenr i. section of the country i* represented, and everywhere in the distributing mar keta it appear* that supplies have hem allowed to ma down-Very kiw. Thia, with tbe fact that leather baa com menced to advaaee, enable* dealers readily bo-obtain full price* fur their i I good*.' Buwm. fido.jarw in rather good [Kiaition to purchase, as. the very care- ' ful policy which has been so generally followed* during the past year baa deft j tbetn with lower net** to meet, and the average condition of the crops in all the agricultural districts rather above | what it waa anticipated they would be two rnontha ago. In the fine goads trade the rush ia eqnally great, and New York manufac turers, who hove a reputation all orep the country, have never before seen so marked a preference (or their goods, or been favored with no many orders so early in the season. There is sh active j competition, but the quality of the . 1 goods made is so closely defined that j buyers art willing to uay for every j speersl titotUftM) in stock or taSnufao-1 turc whieJils put forward, so that nearer ; every house has some distinguishing ; fonturc In its goods which holds a cer tain line of trade. 1 t .1,1 >.. - A i: ..il ' ~ 1 A Trawl JfeL The trawl net ia a very simple contriv ance when it ia well understood: and, by your lee ye, I will try and make its const mot ion plain to you, Imagine an ordinary seine, fioopea up St. the cor ners . "Funnel shame, or rather in the form of a cone sUoca in two, the mouth of the apparatus ia kept open on one aide by a pole some ten or twelve fqe| long, called the " trawl beam,' which flouts uppermost when the pet is down 1 , while the lower side is weighted with a thiek heavy piece of hawser styled the ** ground" rope," around which the meshes of the net are woven. A bri die or " martingale" unites Uie two ends of the trawl beam, ; • To ffiis is attached a double sheaved block,through which runs a hundred and fifty fathofi) rope, capable of bearing a benvy strain, end in hauling ip which great' nicety must be observed, as the slightest hitch or deflection will cause the beam to turn the wrong way, when (he net gets Von her back," as tha fisher folk say, all your catch being simply turned out into the " vasty deep," apd your case resulting 111 that tif -" love's labor lost. "—Belaravia. ehsww of t rogir What did a blind wood-sswyer take to restore his sight ? He Matt lis homo Ohlorofornt *. • |K{ >vTJp n t from • "•garment or ela9MH|m # ,WMk beuaol fit 1 bisulphide of oarbonTails, t A rpoeol .wriint.Mpptfifirm the fear that the art of sf*<. ii'>tan j lial houana is /' It is a mi slake UfenfttfiM Ahat thay who believe every wordrtas HT W A boy eleven l A 111. gathewf t'',; 1 *> ft#'" ST from an aoaa field, sad goi tor it. Mis. a tl. Anthwft of tbe Pullman car* *Jler-d UfPull-man and woman, OirTtitt issaspsMi ve-of-aa ' nam" ri t !; A boiler in the Si Maurice Lumber , I CotfipAuf* miUwif4ode i about half the otimber being in Phils' f delpMs. *\l tl |t HOMI A ami ahaetmg ia tH" P*'** waru nntj paa r* •-ntly attacked by ■ minks, pud only Mter a aevara nmfi are setheneea to a vaaFs tmpmon , meni Tha divetaifiqd industry fd Mew Eng land finds s repreeenfntfroin tbe Dea ' bury m*. who repairs jewfitry. bleeds horses and dig* wdlk." Humor hw *H ber ihoaftsfKfi tongue* cmplovcd in amaring us tbak naxt win -1 tor will b one of thh most brilliant 1 New York few ever ream. A boy in D*obnry after being bitten hy s horse was asked by a geiitU-ma# if he wa* much huit, rertted that " tha horse waa only fooling."mu , Hum is ah UngalMnt ecSntrv. There the Awt wile map be. difaroed, and i after that T wife may be sold for cash or traded fnr'a yellow Nog. Appearance* art that purple will be the prevaabng color hi street coetumee thw aeaeoo, juat .aa fwrown waa last spring and rifle-green last whiter. In the Sad Pnaieiaro city prison, re cently, a cherry root pipe waa discov ered tfi oooof the walla, fa tha stem of which war* cuaesalkil tow fine steed saws 1J ~' l ! The Vcrmoei Central H. R- fureiabea aevaral tot tha rendiMhpr* and engineers with firat-claaa ,|ip|clin*,, costing filfiO each, and they are charged ia those who bold therm. '' Ir ' ' <■ 1 A Trenten f MieMfirl f IHstmm, tbo ! other day, jumped J/ou* the cars while under full motion, and pitied herself np and climbed a roil hates before the . traip could bf stopped. ' Tl cre fa's KriM* made of ibamitoo. It M a single apiui of fiO feet, . 10t' feet above tbe water, and without nulling. It that tor | Giro your raaoer ereoik for soma . little inteUigencc-yfpr at least enough to know when a Word need* to be mo ' phaerxod without hamng tha fact thnu'i down hi# fihwnt by a Lpav squad of reeling italics. ' . A mlisea of Hai4fcL 'arid ho cempletalg deprive a pay be cut to pieces and feel nd palh. ' i A New York !*wyr'tesile a telling I point foe htv eheut WheO he said that he did notAeep a oMkMT Wltbin the meaning ot tbe because in ! stead 6f torii plavtag •• a game of f ohanm thry piaynd *A,?'A deed sure , thing." , . . XUnv of tile cops sbottf Cairo and vicinitV aiV 'goiiis? WtwA. temporarily, ! however. The oauseua thppght to be a SB face of the cwtale,-hkilfl hunting the gnaaon the ooewnqy*-, y I ,-r htr in tbfi •gaewahi'dominkma. | m No." said.tbe l&oiam Vty youkaow the reason why ? asketl John. "Be 1 cause God It'-afrald WfirtwAlui English man in the dark," wew the savage's I t 1 i Pxl. •dT The Clinton (Ma) Adromte aaya ' there are foore YartfoWMMkd just now 1 than wa* wear know* before. Some gentlpmea **>• mm .i*^ . spades but the "Jack,* or meed any 1 earn except ih a ifloSa,' m* now claim ing to bam been JU/aiuag agricultu- A man has e-mrr'H.-J suicide off Bhsk*peare*e ClW.'fifi Jfir. When a third of thw wad wp. thfi clif ha aat do wn | on tbe grass, and after taking off hi* hat Sut two large atones anffS feirdin it, lay rrwii on tha edmeoli Mte ebli; oovwred hie (ace pith hmhfiplv,*? ""fl sideways. Tmom do not like Strong snd fragrant odors, iueh, as.la vender, mode and tlivffie! of chloride of s lima wi# awe) Ahem from rooms, but carpets atioufl be taken up and shaken ' and (he fldart%aehedTKffiV solution of the bSi\ to remove hie 'shop, bib' I lSWr de buai neaa.. for oobodj come to make me piovc. An Imperial okMedirtsimisaion, in elndtng tlie isaMtiliaptlriant scientific authorities sgx .Uiq,pn I^t{cj|in Northern and Houtherh Qermauv amoig its mem bers, has foWl efSfced in Ber lin. It ia otarfioditg 4&F HP * P 1 *" for inquiring into the nature of the dis ease. It is also to com*#? digest and criticise all thw seSeatiflb evidence pro vided. x'} ~' nu ol Kinullg : It ia kld .of. % young gentleman whom a maided liked, bdtVMther didn't, thst at ft resaonShle>koaeUhe old gent mildly tnt#kri)i>(# t\ m ® for **" tiring had arrived. . ,'L think you are correct, inr deSf -im(V , " u ßffcwered niue teeuth century, aaodestifl "we have fattier retired thettghkfuWg A clergymsly veht.liia!Oßuie through some, ptrauge vii'issitqjjta-'of life, was charged at the HirkepUHd (England) Police Owfrt, UiW CfiSrtb idMs with having titoea feand; ittU*#i.ifci>J|fld at West Kirba. The prison* WLbeen at one titoe Hectbir r oT' Larleftbr n. and he Stated that, Vhneaghlanialng specula he could get nrtddbg-'ldidfi? and he waa uow reduced kotti¥tdiWiP° °* *J*- &iM w rfercd tto k ' l 'A iduring a recent thunder-itioktctiSebil City, Pa. The lightning struck jm fi u*tank, eaps ble of boldiog lOJwto 1 .juf-ds of oil, but oddtritiifig'abdtal AKIW I * l the time of the 1 ocemjeaw. TfiPlfrfitti sbnick the top, cutting off iheihkalklflf every bolt that lastonpd s*£})& T{ie top was raised about two feet by th® coucusSfou.-jfofi tffdclfi W* fire, send, ling the imn*epilhfidji'llfe#f me in fire inside.